The surplus cash flow is probably better deployed elsewhere in other projects too.

(Lowes deals with several in-betweeners, so you don't get the best prices from them)Special interior & exterior doors I try to get from a variety of surplus places locally.

Hey Tom,Good way to supplement your leads is to put out bandit signs (I see your from the Chicago area so I'm sure you see them around all the time) Worked VERY well for me when I needed a surplus of pre-foreclosure leads.Other than that...I've found networking provides higher quality leads than direct mail.

Have a full time career outside REI and would like to be moving surplus cash and credit into deals.

In the midst of this downturn the conservative (conservative democrat and republican) government drastically cut taxes and has spurred revenue to a surplus.

When it's more affordable to buy, renters will transition to home-ownership, demand for rentals will decrease, and rents will drop until there is equilibrium.The correlation tends to be lagging, in that renters will transition to home-ownership a good bit past the point where real estate prices have dropped, so you won't necessarily notice a drop in rental rates at the same time as a market drop.That said, I think it's fairly obvious (for me, at least) that rental rates will start/continue (depending on location) to decrease over the next several years, and in many places this decrease will be substantial.The additional factor in this market is that with all the impending commercial foreclosures (apartments), there will be a large surplus of apartment units available to be purchased very cheaply.

We overbuilt and overpaid and now we have a surplus.

Created a surplus which was SHARED with the residents and left office STILL with a much higher approval rate than someone else we're discussing.

While it is true that every state has a department that handles unclaimed funds, when it comes to tax and mortgage surplus funds, they are handled by different departments and many times one doesn't know about the other.

RE isn't the only way to make money and $10K may not go all that far in this arena, especially since you don't want to risk LOSING it all on one bad deal.In NC the state sells all its surplus property at auction.